A new login technique is becoming available in 2023: the passkey. The passkey promises to solve phishing and prevent password reuse. But lots of smart and security-oriented folks are confused about what exactly a passkey is. There’s a good reason for that. A passkey is in some sense one of two (or three) different things, depending on how it’s stored.

This past week, at Youth Dance Weekend in Fairlee VT, I called my first full dance festival. It nicely caps off the five years of calling I've just had.

YAML page templates for a printable, hand-bound journal, rendered to print-ready SVG and PDF.

Journalkit is a piece of software for a specific kind of person: someone who wants to design their own physical daily journal for handwriting in, but prefers to think in code, modules, and measurements while doing so.

As I and others have been exploring our social media horizons beyond the legacy options of Twitter/X, Facebook, Instagram, etc., I’ve made no secret of my skepticism about Bluesky. But I’ve also been lurking there lately and the center of gravity for the political news and conversation I used to get from Twitter is definitely on Bluesky now.